Editing My Man Godfrey (section)

== Awards and honors ==
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|rowspan="6"|1937
|rowspan="6"|[[9th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]<ref name="oscars">[http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1937 "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners."] Academy Awards website. Retrieved: August 9, 2011.</ref>
|[[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|[[Gregory La Cava]]
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|[[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|[[William Powell]]
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|[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
|[[Carole Lombard]]
|{{nom}}
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|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
|[[Mischa Auer]]
|{{nom}}
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|[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|[[Alice Brady]]
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|[[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
|[[Eric Hatch]], [[Morrie Ryskind]]
|{{nom}}
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''My Man Godfrey'' was the first movie to be [[List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations|nominated in all four acting categories]],<ref name="americancinemetheque" /> in the first year that supporting categories were introduced. It is also the only film in Oscar history to receive a nomination in all four acting categories and not be nominated for Best Picture. It was the only film to be nominated in these six categories and not receive any award until 2013's ''[[American Hustle]]''.<ref name=":2" />

In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States [[Library of Congress]] and selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |website=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=April 23, 2020}}</ref> In 2000, the film was ranked #44 on the [[American Film Institute]]'s list of the [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs|100 funniest comedies]],<ref name="afilist">{{cite web |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-laughs/ |website=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306033758/https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-laughs/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Premiere'' voted it one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.<ref name="premierelist">{{cite web |title=''Premiere Magazine''{{'s}} 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time |url=https://www.filmsite.org/50greatestcomedies.html |website=[[Filmsite]] |access-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812115448/https://www.filmsite.org/50greatestcomedies.html |archive-date=August 12, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], it has an approval score of 97% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's consensus states: "A class satire in a class of its own, ''My Man Godfrey''{{'s}} screwball comedy is as sharp as the social commentary is biting."<ref name="RottenTomatoes">{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= 1014536-my_man_godfrey | title= My Man Godfrey }}</ref>